Word: baptismal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priestly life. His ten-point program of grievances that need to be corrected includes an end to arbitrary transfers, a tenure policy that would give priests the right to a hearing before they could be suspended, and a professional salary that would end priests' dependence on Mass and baptism offerings...
...Matt Stanton, the hero, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter, seven weeks of steady rain. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were unhousebroken animals. Beslimed in his own filth-a symbolic rebirth-Matt rises from the hold to be dashed with the condescending baptism of the new world: "In America, we bathe." In the strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it, there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from the mayor, then...
...baptism of vaudeville's fabled Palace as a legitimate Broadway theater house, Sweet Charity is scarcely memorable, but its first dancer and all its dances are just dandy...
...Republican Mayor John Lindsay, undergoing his baptism by fire, was projected even higher into national prominence for bringing his city safely-if not comfortably-through its worst domestic crisis. Lindsay proved, as he had promised in his campaign, to be everybody's mayor, successfully projected himself as a man who was above the cozy back-room deals that had determined the city's fate under postwar Democratic administrations. He also proved that he could be tough when the situation demanded, took to radio and TV in the strike's last week to give one of the sternest...
...Episcopal Theological Seminary, that even the language of spirituality in the two traditions differs. "In the Catholic world," he said, "spirituality is interpreted to be the growth in grace that comes in the life of an individual member of a family in response to the grace infused in baptism; sin is gradually overcome by discipline and participation in the church's sacramental life." For the Protestant, on the other hand, spirituality is a "relationship" or "encounter" with God, in which God's word, preached by the minister, still dwells among men. The emphasis is not so much...